Meg Wins, Jerry's Pricier

Last Friday night, the capital city's own minor league baseball team, the Sacramento Rivercats, decided to spice up the traditional nightly giveaways to its fans with something appropos of the hometown for the seat of government.

Behold, the Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman bobbleheads.
Our crack Sacramento bureau intern Erin Ferguson got the fun assignment of going out to see what the bobblehead fever was all about (and in the process, snagging a pair of the battling pols for the bureau). She faithfully reported back that during the seventh inning stretch, the PA announcer said that Whitman had won the unofficial race, with the supply of her bobble-likeness being exhausted first.

Neither, though, is likely to become as valuable as the one you see in the photo to the side of this sentence, a photo of the two wannabes and the guy who's about to leave the job. That bobblehead, of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, was sold during the 2003 recall until it became the focus of a lawsuit from the actor politician, over its inclusion of a machine gun in the new Guv's hands. The lawsuit was eventually settled.

As of now, it doesn't appear to be for sale anywhere online. And no, I'm not selling mine.

About John Myers

John Myers is senior editor of KQED's new multimedia California Politics & Government Desk. He has covered California politics for most of the past two decades -- serving previously as Sacramento bureau chief for KQED News and, most recently, as political editor for KXTV News10 (ABC) in Sacramento. He moderated the only gubernatorial debate of 2014, and was named one of the nation's top statehouse reporters by The Washington Post. Follow him on Twitter @johnmyers.